Unreal Studio is now available. No, it’s not the long-awaited virtual movie-studio based on Unreal. Architects and product designers will upload their CAD or 3DS Max files to the Unreal Studio servers, and then Unreal will send them back a real-time Unreal Engine render. There’s a plugin for 3DS Max that examines the textures and suchlike, and auto-converts if needed. Unreal Studio is currently in a free beta until November 2018, but is then set to be $49 a month. May be useful for some, perhaps especially for animated turnarounds, but you have to wonder why someone can’t run 3DS Max to Unreal Engine locally — if all it needs is a plugin and it’s producing a genuine real-time render.
